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Foreign Office to Sir C. Lampson and Co. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, September 9, 1890. 
GENTLEMEN: I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowl- 
edge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, calling attention to 
the serious diminution which appears to have taken place in the num- 
ber of fur-seals resorting to the Pribylov Islands. 
Tam, Xe. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
No. 8. 
Admiralty to Foreign Office —(Received September 10.) 
ADMIRALTY, September 9, 1890. 
Sir: Tam commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Adiniralty 
to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs, copy of a telegram dated the 8th September from the Com- 
mander-in-chief on the Pacific Station. 
Iam, Xe. 
(Signed) EvAN MACGREGOR. 
12 [Inclosure in No. 8.—Telegraphie. ] 
Vice-Admiral Heneage to Admiralty. 
Viceroria, British COLUMBIA, September 8, 1890. 
On the 23rd Auenst four sealing schooners left Behring’s Sea, re porting vessels 
homeward bound. Very bad catch on account of foggy weather. “Rush” steamed 
round one while hunting seals, and took no notice. No seizure made or any other 
interference with sealers. 
No. 9. 
Mr. Winton to the Marquis of Salishury.—( Received September 13.) 
32, HALTON STREET, 
Toronto, Canada, September 3, 1890, 
My Lorp: Permit me to say that I am pleased to be able to confirm 
your Lordshin’s representations in reply to Mr. Blaine’s statements 
respecting the “possible destruction of the Behring’s Sea fishery by 
over-fishing and by the irregular slaughter of seals” in that quarter. 
The North Atlantie seal fishery i is very Similar in character to that 
of Behring’s Sea, and the habits of the animal in both seas have a good 
deal in common. The dissimilarity consists physically only in the e¢ char- 
acter of the fur, and locally in the fact that the Atlantic seal is taken, 
captured, or killed either in the water or upon the ice with which it is 
covered at the season when they are taken, whilst the Pacific seal is 
killed in the water or upon the adjacent islands. 
